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Contents:
- MEET GAY DADS AND EXPAT ENTREPRENRS, MIKE & SEBASTIAN
- THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG
- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- ‘I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DAD’: PHOTO BOOK CELEBRAT GAY FATHERHOOD
MEET GAY DADS AND EXPAT ENTREPRENRS, MIKE & SEBASTIAN
The brave dads e om outsi Ameri, too and yet are movg here om their native Vienna to live their bt liv. Atrians Mike, 42, and Sebastian, 34, have reloted to gay mec Palm Sprgs wh their 7-year-old dghter Mia. Public figur the German-speakg world, they are beg featured on the high-ratg realy TV show, Goodbye Dtschland * meet gay dads *
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In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG
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Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.
Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.
SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
is a muny for olr gay men and the men who love them. * meet gay dads *
For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy. * meet gay dads *
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Wh our muny unr attack om right-wg forc, and wild allegatns of groomg, gay parents are also the firg le of nservativ who want to take our hard-won rights back. Atrians Mike, 42, and Sebastian, 34, have reloted to gay mec Palm Sprgs wh their 7-year-old dghter Mia.
Now, might seem strange that two picture-perfect gay men om a postrd-perfect untry like Atria would want to relote the the U.
‘I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DAD’: PHOTO BOOK CELEBRAT GAY FATHERHOOD
Mike remds me that while Atria has a Sound of Mic and an alpe image, is also very nservative societal attus when to two gay dads.
Another aspect of gay parentg that needs stigmatizg is surrogacy. She has three kids, she is a psychologist…” Mike explas that she wanted to be pregnant but didn’t want any more of her own children, and so she was lookg for a gay uple to help.